It’s sometimes amusing to listen to some of the air to ground transmission on the #Apollo flights. A lot of the chatter is the #astronauts talking about #poo, actually #p00, with no hint of adolescent smirking, like this gem on #Apollo12:
109:46:48 Conrad: And, Houston, whenever you’re ready, we’re ready to give you P00 and Data.
P00 was the quiescent state of the #Guidance#Computer where it was ready to receive instructions and data either from the #DSKY#keyboard or #Houston.
@mkwadee Conrad was a funny joker on his own. He won a bet with a journalist about the 1st words when stepping on the moon. A man bet that Nasa wouldn't allow Conrad to say whatever he want (speculating on Neils famous words)
Conrad stepped out of the LEM: " It was a small step for Neil but it is a huge one to me " 😎🙄
Via Mike Acs on Flickr, an image of what I believe was the proposed Saturn MLV-11.5 configuration -- basically a Saturn IB with four five-segment solid boosters strapped to it.
The idea was to hit a middle spot for payload between the IB's 18.6 tonnes and the Saturn V's 118 -- around 40 tonnes.
I’m trying out the #IceCubes app and it looks and works awesome! It, somehow, reminds me of the #Apollo Reddit app in terms of the appearance, polish, and the customisability! Great job, @dimillian! ❤️
🎄🛰️🌑 Aujourd'hui c’est le 55e anniversaire de l'une des photographies spatiales les plus célèbres : le “Lever de Terre” photographié la veille de Noël 1968 par Bill Anders de la mission #Apollo 8
The man who, in all likelihood, saved the lives of the three Apollo 13 astonauts - and probably the remaining Apollo missions.
Hell, possibly even NASA itself. Losing 3 astronauts to die in space, with its attendant publicity, could well have destroyed the agency.
"Mattingly, who knew the spacecraft intimately, worked with engineers and others as they analysed the situation and scrambled to find solutions and pass on instructions to the crew."
TODAY (10/31) for Halloween 🎃 a new online talk series run by the London Science Museum & #JAXA Space Education kicks off at 12:30 UTC (9:30pm JST) and it's ALL ABOUT SPOOKY SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS FROM BEYOND THE VOID!
OK, I completely fabricated the spooky part. But it'll be really cool.
The first talk is on the #Apollo Moon samples with people from #NASA Johnson, the Science Museum and #Smithsonian.
I asked the NASA curation team whether there was any step taken with the lunar sample returned from the Apollo program that would definitely be avoided when Artemis brings back samples?
Apparently, nylon rather than teflon bags were used in some cases as a cost cutting measure when budget was tight. A nylon bag costs about 6c, whereas teflon might cost hundreds of dollars, depending on size. But nylon can react and damage the sample, so will be avoided in future!
@thomas
yeah, but you forget to mention - and the footage miss it completely - they have been manufactured by women crafted in hand work that no engineer would have done or better performed 😎
@christianselig thank you! The update has some of the ideas I suggested once. Probably coincident but awesomeness. I also have given a link to one of the larger v-pet groups. Hopefully they join!
John Garamendi. -- man, you did policy holders 'dirty' as California Insurance Commissioner in 1991:
"In any case, the advantage given to [Leon] Black’s partners by [John] Garamendi led to a terrible outcome for Executive Life’s policyholders. He’d allow assets needed to fulfill Executive Life’s promises to be sold off for far less than they were really worth. ..
What’s more, whether the insurer needed to be taken over at all was questioned in a 1994 article published in the Journal of Financial Economics, which concluded that, thanks to the rebounding junk bond market, Executive Life would have been solvent again within a year of its takeover.
Garamendi had sold at the bottom of the market. That was pretty much exactly where the ex-Drexelites had hoped to buy, propelling Apollo to its start.
'Then [Thomas] McCann opined on [Eli, Leon Black’s father] Black’s larger legacy. “One good way to kill off a company is to approach it as though it has no life, no age, no spirit, no constituencies that matter,” he wrote. “In other words, to approach it as Eli Black did, as though it were nothing more than numbers.”
Much like the plunderers of today.'